Zia — #1194 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Zia

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,080 babies named Zia between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zia currently holds the #1194 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 198 babies received it in a single year. Zia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 311 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,303 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Zia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 441 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Zia in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,080 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.